This is a common SEO question I hear quite often — does having your target keywords in your domain name help you SEO efforts? For those of you wondering about the answer to that question, here is Matt Cutts from Google on the subject (he…

The topic of discussion for #retechchat tomorrow will be iPad Apps. If you have questions, want to learn, or just want to lurk – join the conversation tomorrow at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST. Remember, you can vote for future topics here. For those who want…

What do alligators eat?  And WHY, oh why would anyone who wants to embrace real estate technology care? Turns out, you see, alligators actually eat the misinformed.  Yep, what you don’t know about the alligator, or the alligator’s teeth, or the alligator’s friends….just might get…

Social media is, of course, all the rage these days and it plays an important role in marketing. I’ve stated the obvious but that’s not what this post is about. I’m going to touch on a marketing strategy a number of agents don’t seem to…

My buddy Darin posted a great reminder regarding the importance of taking care of your home turf (aka your backyard) when it comes to sphere building. Go read it. Sphere building is something I’ve spent a lot, and I mean a lot, of time thinking…

The topic of tonight’s #retechchat was Outsourcing, a topic I’ve thought a fair amount about over the past few years (and I need to outsource more myself, but that’s a topic for another day on my personal blog). Ultimately, the decision to outsource comes down to…

Based on the responses (you can vote here), it looks like the topic of discussion for #retechchat tonight will be Outsourcing. If you have questions, want to learn, or just want to lurk – join the conversation tonight at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST….

Back in the old days when when smart phones were so dumb they only had one camera and most tablets required a pencil instead of a battery, a different kind of event debuted in San Francisco. July 2008 marked the very first, Real Estate Barcamp…

My friend Jimmy Mackin posted an amazingly detailed overview of all the functionality of Facebook pages. If you are looking to better understand how to use pages, I highly encourage you to head over to his blog and read it.

Zillow’s closing stock price went ‘down’ to $33.20,  almost $14 to what they wanted. They got a cool $70 million for it, $20 million more than what they were hoping.  Not bad for a real estate related IPO. By now, everyone is chimed in with…